On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Thomas Lo wrote:
The patched version (r46512) solves the problem!! Thanks!
Thank you for confirming this.
In the meantime I tracked down the exact problem. The standards for a
locale name are 'language_country.encoding', as in 'en_GB.utf8' or
'English_United Kingdom.1252'. In Windows XP (at least) Microsoft gives
'Chinese_Hong Kong S.A.R..950'. This is ambiguous, and in at least two
places it was parsed as an encoding of 'A.R..950'. There seem to be only
three locales with dots in the country name (Hong Kong, Macau, U.A.E.), so
it perhaps not surprising that this has gone undetected for so long.
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Thomas Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Brian and Duncan,
Many thanks for your responses. Setting the 'Current format' in
'Regional and language options' under Control Panel to English
(Singapore) solved the R usage problem for me. I will have a go at
R-patched build 46507 after it is released.
Regards,
Thomas
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Prof Brian Ripley
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 08/09/2008 6:56 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
wrote:
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Prof Brian
Ripley wrote:
This reflects a
problem in your
locale (traditional
Chinese): we cannot
reproduce it. Try
running R in a
different locale
(e.g. append
LC_ALL=en to the
target when you
start R).
Maybe I have found this as a
bug in iconv. Please try a
version of R-patched with svn
revision 46507 or later.
Unfortunately, something stopped the daily
builds of R-patched on Saturday, and I
haven't been in to the office yet to fix
things. So it's likely to be tomorrow
before the Windows build of r46507 or later
is available on CRAN.
I only found r46507 this morning, as a side effect of
something else. So it would not be in a build until
tomorrow.
Duncan Murdoch
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008,
Thomas Lo wrote:
Dear all,
I encountered
a problem on
starting and
using the R v
2.7.2
installation
on
my PC running
Windows Vista
and would
appreciate
your help.
When R was
first
started, the
Rgui returned
several error
messages:
Error in
structure(.Internal(Sys.getenv(as.character(x),
as.character(unset)$
unsupported
conversion
Error in
file.exists(name)
: unsupported
conversion in
'filenameToWchar'
In addition,
a dialog box
called
'Information'
popped up
with the
following
message:
Fatal error:
unable to
restore saved
data in
.RData
On clicking
'OK', R
closed
immediately
and the same
thing occurs
on
restarting R.
After
checking for
previous
related
messages
online, I
followed one
of the
recommendations
from before
and appended
--no-restore-data
to the R
shorcut
target line.
After that,
R could start
without the
'fatal
error'.
However,
some
functions
such as
'help' and
'setwd' do
not work:
e.g. >help()
Error: could
not find
function
"help"
setwd("DirName")
Error in
setwd("DirName")
: unsupported
conversion in
'filenameToWchar'
I then typed
'Sys.getlocale()'
and got this:
Sys.getlocale()
[1]
"LC_COLLATE=Chinese
(Traditional)_Hong
Kong
S.A.R..950;LC_CTYPE=Chinese
(Traditional)_Hong
Kong
S.A.R..950;LC_MONETARY=Chinese
(Traditional)_Hong
Kong
S.A.R..950;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Chinese
(Traditional)_Hong
Kong
S.A.R..950"
Setting
LC_ALL=en in
the shortcut
target does
not appear to
work in this
case as I got
During
startup -
Warning
message:
Setting
LC_CTYPE=en
failed
Furthermore,
I tried the
patched
version of R
2.7.2 and the
same problem
occurs.
I would be
very grateful
if anybody
could help.
Many thx.
Thomas
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